All Business Jets articles – Page 720
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FAA plans to publish standards for helicopter GPS approach
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has completed a four-site test programme to develop standards for helicopter non-precision-approaches, using global positioning (GPS). A GPS based approach was demonstrated at Heli-Expo using an Eurocopter BK.117 equipped with an AlliedSignal Bendix/King KLN-90B GPS and Arnav Systems datalink. Steve ...
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ANA re-jigs aircraft orders in fleet plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced major new aircraft purchases, order deferrals and cancellations, resulting from a review of its fleet requirement up to 2000 and beyond The changes cover the purchase of 18 new Airbus A321s and A320s and Boeing 767s and 777s, ...
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ANA re-jigs aircraft orders in fleet plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced major new aircraft purchases, order deferrals and cancellations, resulting from a review of its fleet requirement up to 2000 and beyond The changes cover the purchase of 18 new Airbus A321s and A320s and Boeing 767s and ...
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Grob Strato 2C takes shape
GROB HAS COMPLETED the airframe of its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, with the aircraft now in final assembly. A first flight is now scheduled for this year. The German company has been seeking additional funding from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology to complete the project. The twin-engined ...
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Grob Strato 2C takes shape
GROB HAS COMPLETED the airframe of its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, with the aircraft now in final assembly. A first flight is now scheduled for this year. The German Company has been seeking additional funding from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology to complete the project. The twin-engine ...
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Gulfstream
Gene Rainville has been named executive vice-president of international sales at business-jet manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace, of Savannah, Georgia. He was most recently senior vice-president of marketing for Dassault FalconJet of Paramus, New Jersey, and, before that, spent 13 years with Cessna of Wichita, Kansas. Source: Flight International
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Fiinding the way
The only surprise in the regional-airliner tie-up between Aerospatiale, Alenia and British Aerospace is that it is happening. The tie-up does not represent the end of the restructuring of the European regional-airliner industry, but the beginning of a new route for which there are, as yet, no maps. By including ...
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Dassault Delivers
Dassault Aviation delivered 25 Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 business-jets in 1994, up from 15 in 1993. Deliveries of Falcon 900s increased to 18, from eight in 1993. By comparison, Canadair delivered 25 Challengers, up from 20 on 1993, and Gulfstream Aerospace delivered XX GIV-SPs, up from 26. ...
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Learjet 45 powers towards first flight
ELECTRICAL POWER WAS TO BE applied to the first Learjet 45 before the end of January, the next step towards the maiden flight of the business jet in mid-1995. The aircraft's two AlliedSignal TFE731-20 turbofans are ready for installation. Shorts, was scheduled to deliver the fuselage, and de Havilland the ...
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Engine fire brings down Falcon 20
A DASSAULT FALCON 20E, of air taxi company Lead Air-Unijet, crashed shortly after takeoff from the operator's base, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France, at 17.30 on 20 January. The crew reported a fire in one of the aircraft's General Electric CF700-2D2 engines and was returning to land. ...
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NASA F-16XL laminar-flow tests will aid HSCT effort
NASA EXPECTS TO begin, a year-long laminar-flow flight-test programme, on a Lockheed F-16XL by October, in support of US industry efforts to build a next-generation high-speed commercial transport (HSCT). The work follows delivery of a new laminar-flow panel to the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards ...
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Thrust reverser delivered to Rolls-Royce
THE FIRST THRUST reverser for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engine has been sent by manufacturer Hurel-Dubois to R-R's engine-test site at Hucknall, UK. The system includes a Hurel-Dubois reverser design which combines target-type and pivoting-door reversers. Hurel- Dubois has responsibility for the design, development, supply and subsequent in-service support of ...
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Cessna/Gulfstream break sales records
CESSNA AIRCRAFT and Gulfstream Aerospace have reported record business-jet sales for 1994. Cessna says that it delivered 121 Citation business-jets in the year, up from 116 in 1993, and booked orders for a further 203 - its highest order intake since 1979, the best year ever for Citation sales. ...
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Boeing says 777 noise 'better than forecast'
BOEING IS about to submit "better than expected" noise data on the 777 to the US and European Joint Airworthiness Authorities. The noise data are essential for the type to qualify under Stage 3 requirements at certification, expected in late April 1995. Boeing 777 noise-engineering supervisor, Billy Glover, ...
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Learjet 45 engine ready for testing
LEARJET IS PREPARING to fly the engine testbed for its new Learjet 45 business-jet by early February. An AlliedSignal TFE731-20 turbofan has been installed on the left side of a Learjet 31 prototype for tests in advance of the first flight of the Learjet 45 later this year. ...
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NetJets programme buys 22 Gulfstream GIV/GVs
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) has ordered seven Gulfstream IV-SP business-jets, and taken options on 13 more GIV-SPs and two long-range Gulfstream Vs, for its NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The deal, worth more than $500 million, including interior completion and maintenance of the aircraft, represents Gulfstream's largest-ever order. ...
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Bombardier Global Express definition team homes in on detailed-design requirements
BOMBARDIER'S GLOBAL Express joint-definition team is winding down as detailed design of the long-range business jet gets under way. Definition will be completed by the end of this month and wing developer Mitsubishi has reduced its Montreal-based design team from 60 to 15 people and is expected to ...
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Grob aims to regain Strato 2C financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is expecting a decision to be taken this month on further Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, which has overshot budget estimates. The company says that the programme requires DM30 million ($19.5 million) extra cash from ...
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Gulfstream Engine Order
Rolls-Royce has signed a $150 million contract with Gulfstream Aerospace for the supply of additional Tay engines for the Gulfstream GIVSP business jet through to the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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No worries for Astra operators
Sir - In the article "Astra owners face disc work" (Flight International, 30 November-6 December, P17), it was reported that US Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive (AD) 94-23-05, had been issued against AlliedSignal TFE731 engines installed on Israel Aircraft Industries Astras. In reporting the technical facts of the ...